Lizzy Williamson (Folger Shakespeare Library) 'Material Texts and Digital Provenance: Opening a Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama'

Prof. Jean-Paul Pittion, fellow emeritus at TCD and former professor of Renaissance Studies in the Université François Rabelais, Tours, has published widely on the history of the book, Protestant academies in France, Huguenot emigration to Ireland, intellectual history, the history of medicine and medical publishing in the early modern period.    

French rugby is a sport historically practiced in the ‘wrong’ place, for the ‘wrong’ reasons and in the ‘wrong’ way. Its most abiding social function has been as a marker of frequently belligerent local identities, with investment in the game, both moral and material, being almost always parochial in nature. This was reflected for much... | Read on »

Mr Michael Kavanagh 'Protestant Secondary School Education in Co.Galway: Galway Grammar School, 1895 - 1932'

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In October 2015, Dr. Ian Campbell was awarded a Starting Grant of €1.3 million by the European Research Council to pursue the research project ‘War and the Supernatural in Early Modern Europe’ over four-and-a-half years. He will lead a research team of two research fellows and one graduate student to examine the relationship between debates inside... | Read on »

Dr Jessica Cooke (Independent Scholar) 'Saint Meldan, Saint Fursa, Saint Cuanna: Saints of Lough Corrib'.

In October 2015, Ian was awarded a Starting Grant of €1.3 million by the European Research Council to pursue the research project ‘War and the Supernatural in Early Modern Europe’ over four-and-a-half years. He will lead a research team of two research fellows and one graduate student to examine the relationship between debates inside the early... | Read on »

              Participants Dr. Rebecca Barr (English) Dr. Brendan Flynn (Political Science & Sociology) Dr. Laurence Marley (History) Dr. Kate Quinn (Spanish) Dr. Niall Ó Dochartaigh (Political Science & Sociology) Dr. Kerry Sinanan (Moore Institute Visiting Fellow)

Winifred Carney was an active feminist and a significant figure of the 1916 Rising. Born in County Down, she became James Connolly’s personal secretary after he was appointed Belfast organizer of the ITGWU. She arrived in the GPO on Easter Monday with a typewriter and a Webley revolver, and held the rank of adjutant throughout the week of... | Read on »